Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well the Japs feed some prisoners is dubious. Of 13,724 U.S. soldiers in Jap camps, 600 are already known to be dead, chiefly from malnutrition, pneumonia, malaria, dysentery and diphtheria...
Died. Clifford Whittingham Beers, 67, onetime maniac, founder and longtime secretary of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (1909-'38); of broncho-pneumonia following cerebral thrombosis; in Providence. Fearing a fancied approach of epilepsy, in 1900 he leaped out of a fourth floor window, lived to see the inside of both private and public insane asylums. Released in 1903, he later wrote A Mind That Found Itself. A best-selling personal history, it drew the nation's attention to the primitive brutality of its madhouses, led to reforms that helped many unbalanced minds...
...credit side can be gauged by New York City's mortality records: if the pre-sulfa mortality rate had prevailed, 10,341 New Yorkers would have died from 1936 to 1941, of 14 diseases now treated with sulfa drugs. Actually only 4,475 died. For every 685 pneumonia deaths there was only one fatal sulfa reaction-a risk doctors and citizens agree is well worth taking...
Died. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, 60, deliverer of the Dionne quintuplets; of pneumonia; in North Bay, Ont. At 4:30 a.m. on May 28, 1934, on his 1,400th maternity call, the short, bespectacled doctor stepped into an unpainted Ontario farm house, worked over Mrs. Dionne for an hour, baptized her five newborn girls against their anticipated deaths, then began to realize that he had made medical history. Son of a small-town doctor, he had nearly missed his M.D. at the University of Toronto in 1907, had treated the prolific French of the Callander region for 24 winters...
...Pneumonia deaths, though low compared with pre-1941 rates, were 21% higher than during the first quarter of 1942. Atypical or virus pneumonia, a lung infection whose cause is not certainly known, was responsible for many cases...